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Hurrah for Carter's 6th veto and the support from the Representatives! They are using foresight. Too much of what goes on in Washington is hindsight: investigating actions that have already been committed. This takes time that should be spent on blocking unnecessary expenditures of taxpayers' money...
Founded in the 6th century, St. Catherine's monastery sits at the foot of Mount Sinai, atop which, according to biblical tradition, the Lord gave Moses the Ten Commandments. In 1946 one adventurous visitor to this Greek Orthodox abbey, which then was 100 miles from the nearest town of any consequence, was shocked to learn that the monks had not yet heard of World War II. He was even more astounded to discover that some of them had never heard of World...
Although overshadowed by the stellar performances of Sellers and Amble, it was the strong showing of the Linsley sisters, captain Sarah (4th) and Kristen (6th), and Karen Messet (10th), which wrapped up the victory for the Crimson...
Despite a slow start, Peabody Mayor Nicholas Mavroules soundly defeated State Rep. Jim Smith in the 6th Congressional district, obtaining 44 per cent of the vote. Smith received 35 per cent and Essex County Commissioner John L. McKean '71 trailed with 21 per cent. Late returns gave Mavroules the lead...
...country he inherited 37 years ago was not only backward and riven by tribal conflict but notoriously unstable: there had not been a single peaceful succession since Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C. In the two decades before his army officer father, Reza Shah, seized power in a military coup in 1921, there had been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied...